Managing Customers and Rules

vCloud Usage Meter meters compute resource consumption in your entire vCenter Server inventory. With customers and rules, you have detailed control and can organize consumption reporting by customer.

When you are ready to organize consumption reporting by a customer, you can create a rule that meters objects in your inventory for an entire vCenter Server instance. For example, for the unique ID of a virtual machine or IP address.

You can add customers individually or import multiple customers to vCloud Usage Meter. The import and export capability on the Customer tab can support you keep the same customer list on multiple vCloud Usage Meter.

You use a tab-separated file to import customers and rules to vCloud Usage Meter. You can manually generate the file, or you can base the file on an exported customers and customers rules list from vCloud Usage Meter.